Added two fruits to my diet!

brandy · Post by **brandy** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 6:46 pm

Hi Gloria,

Great news! I've been making little pyrex single serve cobblers with a paleo type crumble on top. I grease my pyrex, add my fruit and some arrowroot. Then for the topping mix Coconut oil, some almond flour or walnut meal, a touch of sweetener--honey or agave or blackstrap molasses.

Brandy

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:22 pm

Brandy,

Your cobbler sounds very similar to mine, except I mix the almond flour with corn flour and coconut oil. I wasn't sure if I could handle the coconut oil, but so far, so good. I made some almond cookies using coconut oil, but I think they bothered me.

Leah,

I was wondering if you could eat cherries because we both feel that we're fructose-intolerant. The cherries I'm using are sour cherries, or pie cherries. DH has a bag of sweet cherries in the refrigerator, but I'm afraid to try them because they're fresh. I don't know if the MRT test is for sweet or sour cherries. I've avoided both these past three years. This is the first time I've tried anything yellow on the MRT test. I usually react to anything over a 1.5 test result. My cherry score was about 2.2.

Can you eat sweet cherries or sour ones? Have you tried mango or rhubarb?

Gloria

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:33 am

Hi Gloria. I can eat mango, but haven't done anything with rhubarb ( not very popular in California). Plus rhubarb needs to be "made" into something with sugar and I prefer to not eat too many sweets in general. Yes, I can eat a few sweet cherries. I seem to be Ok with half a peeled apple ata a time ( I put it in my chicken salad). With me , it seems to be about quantity. So I "sneak" a few bites here and there from the fruit I buy for my family, but it's never a huge part of my eating plan.

leah

mzh · Post by **mzh** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:30 am

That is so wonderful Gloria!

Have you tried honeydew melon? I found I don't get awful gas and/or D when I eat that. I've been eating apples the past year but lately they give me problems. Maybe I'll try them peeled. Great thread everyone! I wish I liked cherries, rhubarb and mangos. LOL

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:11 pm

Have you tried honeydew melon?

No, I haven't tried it. It's green on my MRT test and I've wondered if I should, but I have hesitated because of my apparent fructose intolerance. Also, I'd have to eat it fresh and I don't know if my gut could handle it. I probably should try this summer. Thanks for the suggestion.

I wish I liked cherries, rhubarb and mangos.

So many people have never eaten rhubarb. It must be a local item. I grew up with it and am used to its sour taste. I love it in my brown sugar muffins.

Gloria

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:05 pm

Honey dew and cantaloupe are both low on the FODMAP list, but I haven't been brave enough to try it either. Maybe soon :)_

leah

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:17 pm

Canteloupe was a high yellow on the MRT test for me, so I've never tried it. Miss it, though. DH is growing it in our garden...

Gloria

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:16 am

Honeydew, Cantaloupe and Watermelon all hit me the wrong way - D within an hour. So miss them in the summer but dare not try them again.

Love, Maggie

humbird753 · Post by **humbird753** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:58 pm

This is great news, Gloria! Hope it continues for you.

BTW do you have the recipe you use? I always love new ideas.

Paula

Kari · Post by **Kari** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:17 pm

Wonderful news Gloria - so happy for you!!! I grew up eating rhubarb, as it grows wild in Norway. We used to pick it and eat it when outside playing as kids. We got used to the sour taste. We also had lots of wild blueberries, raspberries and strawberries that we loved to pick and eat - so full of flavor.

Love,
Kari

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:01 pm

Kari,

Then it must be the Norwegian in me that loves it. My dad, whose mother was Norwegian, loved it. He didn't cook much, but I remember him cooking a pot of rhubarb and sugar on the stove. I love putting it in my brown sugar muffins.

I've always liked sour more than sweet fruit and I've never like candy other than chocolate and sour fruit slices. That's why I love the dried mango slices. There's a store in Utah that sells a dried mango that's slightly tart. They must process it when it's not quite ripe. I buy it every time I go to Utah and my daughter brings several bags when she visits. I don't eat any other type because they're sweeter than I like. I don't know what I'll do if they ever stop selling them.

Paula,
I'll try to put the recipe for rhubarb-mango crisp and cherry crisp in Dee's Kitchen. I'm canning the cherries right now and will be canning cherry jam tomorrow, so it may take a while. Leslie asked for my mango jam, and I need to post that, too. I also made some mango sorbet using mango puree and condensed almond milk. I think it bothers me, though. I used canned pureed mango which had citric acid. I'm going to try using fresh mango tomorrow.

Gloria

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:04 am

WAHOO, Gloria!!!

I love to hear when you have been able to tolerate another food. Great news!

Love from your fellow double DQer,

Polly

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:16 am

You are very busy cooking and canning gloria!

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:30 pm

Leah and Polly,

I'm so happy that I can eat food from my garden again. I love preserving food, even though it's a lot of work. It's very fulfilling to me.

Now I need to decide whether to freeze or dehydrate the rhubarb.

Gloria

wmonique2 · Post by **wmonique2** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:56 pm

If anyone can figure out a way to peel cherries, let me know...I am crazy about them but can't have them because of the skins..

Happy for you, Gloria!

Monique